A heroic Chattanooga police officer pulled a woman to safety who was threatening to jump from a bridge in a suicide attempt.

A heroic Chattanooga police officer pulled a woman to safety who was threatening to jump from a bridge in a suicide attempt.

Dashcam video footage showed the tense interaction when Officer Steven Meador arrived at the scene and first tried to coax the woman down from her perch.

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"If she rolled to the right, she would have fallen into the water," Meador told The Washington Post. "If she rolled to the left, she would have fallen into the road. If she jumped, she would have been killed."

The woman had left her driver's license face-up on the sidewalk, which Meador said is a common indication of a suicide attempt. During the interaction, the officer tried to calm the woman down by asking her name and if she needed a cigarette, but she remained distant and refused to answer his questions.

When she eventually stood up on the ledge, she looked down and said "I'm done," according to the police department's Facebook page.

Meador moved out of the woman's sight and then ran towards her from behind, grabbing the back of her jeans to pull her down from the ledge. The woman was left with slight abrasions on her shoulder and cheek, but she was in stable condition when the brave officer later checked up on her in a local hospital.

On a post from the police Department's Facebook page, a user named McKenzie Taylor wrote "Thank you for saving my Mother's life." Officer Meador responded saying, "You're welcome. I hope she's doing OK."

Taylor told the Washington Post that she and her mother got into a heated argument shortly before the scary incident on the bridge.

"People try to make officers out to be terrible, but Officer Meador saved my mother's life and I can't thank him enough," Taylor told the paper.